Call For Papers: Rudolph Fisher, Luminary of the Harlem Renaissance

We invite submissions for a special issue on the work of Rudolph Fisher. Essays re-assessing all of Fisher’s work using contemporary literary critical methods and current approaches to diaspora, race, and cross-cultural encounter are especially welcome. Specific topics and themes may include, but are not limited to:

• New critical approaches to Fisher’s writing
• Fisher and theories of race
• Reconsidering the detective genre
• Alternative modernisms in Fisher’s work
• Fisher’s essays and book reviews
• Early cinema and Fisher’s narrative strategy
• Fisher’s use of science, medicine, art, and folk practices
• Fisher and his influences
• Fisher and the Harlem Renaissance
• Fisher’s dramatic collaborations and the Federal Theater Project
• Previously unpublished material
• Fisher’s process, e.g., ‘‘The Lindy-Hop Variants’’

The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2009. Please send submissions to:

Callaloo/The Fisher Issue

Department of English, Blocker 249

Texas A&M University

TAMU 4227

College Station, TX 77843-4227

All submitted material must include either an e-mail address or a self-addressed envelope (SAE) with loose postage adequate for a letter notifying you of our decision. All manuscripts must be submitted in triplicate, and must NOT bear the author’s name or any other identifying information about the author. This enables our readers to review manuscripts blindly. We cannot begin the review process until we have received all three blind copies. Please include a cover letter listing the titles of the submitted works, and detailing all rele- vant contact information for the author, including an e-mail address if available. Each individual copy of essays or unpublished material should be stapled. The maximum word limit for any one manuscript is 10,000 words (approx. 25 single-spaced pages, 12 point font). Bibliographies and documented material should follow the MLA Style Manual (most recent edition). We currently do not accept submissions via e-mail or fax transmission from within the United States. Contributors should refer to the Callaloo website, contributor’s guidelines, for additional information about submissions: http://www. callaloo.tamu.edu.

Please address any inquiries concerning the calls for papers to Molly Anne Rothenberg, guest editor, at mollyrothenberg@yahoo.com.